The book, which was published in 1934, has been adapted for the screen twice—the 1975 film starred Albert Finney as Poirot, while the 2017 movie featured Kenneth Branagh in the role.

Believe it or not, it’s actually the premise of E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, a sci-fi short story published in 1909. And that’s only one of several books that predicted the future.